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Board of Trustees /Management Council/ Education and Research Council organization

Organizational operation of Kyushu University

The Board of Trustees

as of April 1, 2025

Name Position Description
Tatsuro Ishibashi President  
Makoto Aratono Executive Vice President, Provost and Senior Vice President University Management and Coordination, Planning, Personnel, Safety and Health
Kenji Iwata Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President International Affairs, SDGs, Records Management, Legal Affairs, Research Integrity
Yoshimi Sonoda Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President Education, Student Support, Admission, Partnerships with High Schools, Alumni Associations, Kyushu University Fund, DEI（Diversity, Equity & Inclusion）
 Jun Tanimoto Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President Research, Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration, Intellectual Properties, Campus Development and Management
 Seiichi Uchida Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President Information Technology, DX, Library, Evaluation and Institutional Research
Kazuyuki Furuta Executive Vice President
Secretary-General		 Finance, Administrative Affairs, Labor Management, Crisis Management, Harassment Prevention
Shisou Kataoka (Part-time)Executive Vice President Finance Strategy, Asset Management
Mami Oyama (Part-time)Executive Vice President Academic, Science and Technology Policy
Yukiko Motomura (Part-time)Executive Vice President Public Relations Strategy, Citizen Science

Education and Research Council

as of October 1, 2025

Name Affiliation
Tatsuro Ishibashi President
Makoto Aratono Executive Vice President
Kenji Iwata Executive Vice President
Yoshimi Sonoda Executive Vice President
Jun Tanimoto Executive Vice President
Seiichi Uchida Executive Vice President
Kazuyuki Furuta Executive Vice President
Shisou Kataoka Executive Vice President
Mami Oyama Executive Vice President
Yukiko Motomura Executive Vice President
Masaharu Shiratani Senior Vice President
Aya Hagishima Senior Vice President
Koji Inoue Senior Vice President
Akiko Satake Senior Vice President
Satoru Koyanagi Senior Vice President
Koichi Akashi Senior Vice President 
Kenichi Tanoue Senior Vice President 
Kazunari Sasaki Senior Vice President
Takuya Kitaoka Senior Vice President 
Johan Lauwereyns  Senior Vice President 
Kaoru Tamada  Senior Vice President
Takahiro Kusakabe Senior Vice President
Takeru Nose Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
Akio Onjo Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Kunio Araya Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies
Hisao Takekuma Dean of the Faculty of Human-Environment Studies
Minoru Tokumoto Dean of the Faculty of Law
Toshio Ohnishi Dean of the Faculty of Economics
Masanori Sato Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures
Akira Terasaki Dean of the Faculty of Sciences
Fumio Hiroshima Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics
Nobuyuki Sudo Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences
Fusanori Nishimura Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science
(Koyanagi Satoru) Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Motoji Yamamoto Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
(Kenichi Tanoue) Dean of the Faculty of Design
Makoto Yokoo Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Kazuhide Ito Dean of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences
Takahiro Kusakabe Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture
Shigeaki Owaki Dean of Law School
Kenshi Hayashi Dean of the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences
Tatsumi Ishihara Dean of the Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences
(Kunio Araya) Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation
Satoru Tanoue Dean of the School of Education
(Masaharu Shiratani) Dean, Institute for Advanced Study
Yasuyuki Ohkawa Director, Medical Institute of Bioregulation
Yoshihiro Kangawa Director, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics
Shiyoshi Yokoyama Director, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering
Kenji Kajiwara Director, Institute of Mathematics for Industry
(Tatsumi Ishihara) Director, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER)
Masafumi Nakamura Director, Kyushu University Hospital
(Seiichi Uchida) Director, Kyushu University Library
Koji Okamura Director, Research Institute for Information Technology
Kimihiko Hyakumura Director, Council for Intra-Institutional Coordination
<Observers*>   
Miya Yamaguchi Auditor
Yoshiro Hori Auditor
Shuji Shimizu Vice President
Noriko Isobe Vice President
(Takeru Nose) Vice President
(Kunio Araya) Vice President
Natalie Konomi Vice President
CAAVEIRO JOSE Vice President
Mako Nakamura Vice President
LIU HUIXIN Vice President
Shinji Ohnishi Vice President
Ryu Kojima Vice President
Shoshiro Takeyoshi Vice President
(Kazuyuki Furuta) Secretary-General

* An observer must meet the requirement stipulated in Clause 2, Article 6 of the Education and Research Council Regulations.